When Everyone Is A Contrarian,

You Can Give Your Social Security Check To Any Organization, Public Or Private, Or To Individuals. You Can Donate It To Your Favorite Political Party. You Can Give The Funds To A Student Scholarship - For Your Grandchildren, For Example - Or To Somebody Who Has A Medical Need. Or You Can Invest Your Government Check In Free Enterprise.

Most Of Marx's Predictions Have Failed To Materialize, And His Labor Theory Of Value And Other Ideas Have Been Proven Wrong. Marx Failed To Recognize The Incentive System Built Into The Capitalist Model - Consumer Choice And The Profit Motive Of The Entrepreneur. The Irony Is That Capitalism, Not Socialism Or Marxism, That Has Liberated The Worker From The Chains Of Poverty, Monopoly, War, And Oppression, And Has Better Achieved Marx's Vision Of A Millennium Of Hope, Peace, Abundance, Leisure, And Aesthetic Expression For The 'full' Human Being.

I've Felt For Some Time That Economics Needs To Be Taught Differently By Economists Who Actually Have Had Experience Making A Payroll Or Investing On Wall Street. When Economics Is Taught By Pure Academics, Watch Out.

I Only Have Disdain For New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He Raised Taxes And Has Increased Regulations. What Else Is New? He's A Bully Who Wants To Micro-manage People's Lives By Mandate, Not Persuasion.

When Everyone Is A Contrarian, Nobody Is A Contrarian